The Belfast-born flautist James Galway will be honoured in his native city on Saturday.
In a life that has taken him around the world’s great concert halls, Galway looks out from the sixth floor of Ulster University on York Street on to a rain-sodden Belfast, just hundreds of metres away from where he was born on Vere Street.
“It was up by the side of the Gallagher’s tobacco factory. That’s all gone now, of course. We used to go in there to see what we could find, until our dads caught us,” remembers the 85-year-old with a smile.
Vere Street, a flashpoint during the early years of the Troubles, no longer exists, having been demolished as part of an urban regeneration project.
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